(October 8, 2023 at 10:21 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: The idea that egypt lie in ruin gives us a way to potentially date ezekiel. By the 500s it had been invaded multiple times, fallen very far from it's glory, and was no longer ruled by the natives. Just one region in the face of the vast and advancing persian empire.The Nile was farmed by somebody every year without fail from time immemorial. But Ezekiel 29:11 says, "No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years."
Naturally the Bible inerrantists come in and say Egypt was made desolate spiritually.
